Our nature table is pretty full these days, though not at all as I expected it to be. I don't know why I thought it might look like this. Or this. Ours is definitely more reflective if my children's personalities. The table is scattered with leaves, pinecones, acorns, and cicada shells (with a couple dead cicada among them) from outside. Intermingling with some berry containers from the farmers market, two 'toad abodes' E made at her sleepover at the zoo, and a random slinky.
While not how I pictured it, the kids have taken ownership and are using it as I had hoped. As in, "Look at this leaf! I want to put it on the nature table!" Located on a radiator cover on our enclosed porch, it also serves as a nice transitional space from outside to in. "That can't come inside... but you can put it on the nature table!"
It's all about the process, right?
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